Lost Was the Key [Paperback]

Leah A. Haley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1995

Lost Was the Key is a nonfiction, autobiographical account of a CPA, wife, and mother whose middle-class, Southern-Baptist world was shattered by unwanted contact with extraterrestrials. When Leah Haley began to investigate the subject of "alien" contact, agencies of the U.S. government and/or military became so interested in her that they were willing to risk charges of burglary, kidnapping, and torture to learn what she knew and to silence her.

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About the Author

Leah A. Haley is an internationally known writer, lecturer, and researcher, as well as a CPA with two masters’ degrees. Her books have been featured on major television programs such as The Joan Rivers Show, NBC Weekend Today, and 60 Minutes; on radio programs worldwide; and in magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Omni.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Greenleaf Pubns (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883729033
• ISBN-13: 978-1883729035
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,125,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "No Alien Abductions Ever Took Place...", November 4, 2011

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Charlene Donnavan (Gulf Shores, Alabama) - See all my reviews

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The title of this review is a 2011 quote from the author, Leah A. Haley-Ann Davenport that I stumbled across on Face Book. I have read and studied all of Haley's books so I followed the URLs, read her interview and articles, and discovered the author has indeed retracted her alien abduction encounters.

This book (with extra large print ostensibly to make the reader think they are getting more bang for their money) was a "sensation" on the UFO scene when it was published in 1993. Buttressed by the Gulf Breeze sighting craze and some of the more naïve personalities in the area, especially conference promoters, Leah became the darling of the UFO abduction movement.

Haley writes that she was on-board a UFO when it was "shot down" by the U.S. military (Eglin AFB); perhaps the wildest and most far-fetched claim to ever come out of abduction lore. Because of my work and the geographic area I cover, I've been able to watch this case unfold and disintegrate over the past (nearly) two decades, and to be honest, I'm not surprised.

What is most depressing about what Haley is doing, is while she has the right to change her mind, the manner in which she is handling this could not be more reprehensible. She continues to sell her pro alien books (even on her own Web site at Greenleaf publications) while at the same time denying any alien abductions ever occurred to her. This is an affront to people such as Ed Walters (see The Gulf Breeze Sightings) and the many other residents of Gulf Breeze, who not only saw the same or a very similar craft hovering in their skies, but experienced "real" abductions in their own lives. Their craft was not the UFO Haley was on-board for certain: We now know Leah Haley's "UFO" never existed.

There are people referenced in "Lost Was the Key", and others who were totally ignored, who gave Leah Haley support and a helping hand when she needed it most. We can only imagine what they must be thinking now that Haley says alien abductions never happened to her. How could they have been so easily fooled?

I encourage people to read this book, but don't buy it from Leah at Greenleaf publications. Buy a used copy from individual sellers and continue to support Amazon and the truth. But read this book very carefully. If you do, you will see how outlandish and far-fetched Leah's story was, and how she was able to draw sincere, caring people into her web of mendacity.

Today, Haley wishes everyone to believe it was all government backed mind control. No doubt she has another book in the works. Don't be fooled, and don't nourish the author with the attention she so desperately thrives upon.

Everyone who has read "Lost Was the Key" should contact Leah Haley at the address on her Web site and ask her why she is perpetuating this lie by continuing to make a profit off of something she claims never happened. "Office" at "greenleafpublications" is a dot com site.

For more about The Gulf Breeze Sightings and Abductions in Gulf Breeze see these two books available from Amazon

The Gulf Breeze Sightings: The Most Astounding Multiple Sightings of Ufos in U.S. History

Ufo Abductions in Gulf Breeze

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, but I don't dare to be 100% convinced, June 17, 1998

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This review is from: Lost Was the Key (Paperback)

Leah Haley's book purports to be an account of repeated alien abduction discovered through hypnotic regression, and as such is a celestial cousin of Whitley Strieber's more famous Communion, and its sequels. She sounds perfectly sincere about all this, and it is courageous of her to expose herself to the inevitable ridicule that such accounts attract. What is particularly disturbing about Ms Haley's story is that she claims to have been stalked, abducted, examined and harassed by OMAGS ("obnoxious military and government scoundrels") from Planet Earth, as well as by the little "chalky-coloured" men. Is this fact imitating X-Files? Since she doesn't have all the answers to her numerous questions (why, who, where, when, etc), the book cannot help but have an unresolved quality, but that heightens its credibility. All the same, I don't dare to be 100% convinced. If some of her conclusions are true, the future of the human race doesn't bear contemplation. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Leah Haley Publicizes the Material in Her Books Never Happened, November 30, 2011

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Lacy Sullivan (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews

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Once Leah Haley announced that alien abductions never happened, how can any information from any of her books be taken seriously? Since Haley has changed her mind about the material in her own books, she will likely do it again. Haley appears to show a total lack of conviction of what her personal experiences were. Since her book is full of her visions, voices, alien guide Ceto, military harassment, and hypnosis sessions, I doubt that anything she wrote in the book really happened the way she said it did. Alien abduction is not taken lightly by those who are really suffering through it. Unfortunately, it appears that to Leah Haley, it was just some kind of game to play.